Content authentication and validation via multi-factor digital tokens, systems, and methods

Abstract

Authentication tokens, systems, and methods are described. An illustrative method is disclosed to include receiving an electronic file including a digital image, receiving biometric information that is associated with a person, modifying the electronic file with the biometric information such that one or more pixels in the digital image are replaced with the biometric information, and storing the modified electronic file as a digital authentication token to be used in connection with authorized publications of original digital work.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method of publishing secured digital media content, the method comprising:
 receiving, via at least one processor, at least one original digital work; 
 obtaining, via the at least one processor, digital identifying information of an entity associated with creation of the at least one original digital work, wherein the digital identifying information represents an identity of the entity; 
 modifying, via the at least one processor, the digital identifying information of the entity according to execution of at least one deterministic function; 
 generating, via the at least one processor, a digital authentication token via execution of at least one deterministic algorithm operating on the at least one original digital work and the modified digital identifying information of the entity; 
 enabling publication of the digital authentication token along with the at least one original digital work as publishable content thereby binding the identity of the entity with the original digital work; and 
 enabling recordation of the publication of the publishable content on a notarized ledger data structure. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one original digital work comprises a digital representation of an original physical work. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the original digital work includes at least one of: image data, video data, audio data, text data, 3D data, game data, movie data, sculpture data, vital sign data, health state data, a virtual reality rendering, software files, and financial data. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the publishable content comprises the digital authentication token attached to the original digital work. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the publishable content comprises the original digital work and a link to the digital authentication token. 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the publishable content comprises an updated original digital work having a presentation of the digital authentication token or an updated digital authentication token based on the updated original digital work. 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising, physically manifesting the digital authentication token via physical media. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 7 , wherein the physical media includes at least one of the following: paper media, 3D printed media, and sculpted media. 
     
     
       9. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the modified digital identifying information comprises an entity identifier of the entity associated with a creation of the original digital work. 
     
     
       10. The method of  claim 9 , wherein the entity identifier comprises at least one of the following: a creator name, a unique identification number, a username, a nickname, and an email address. 
     
     
       11. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the digital identifying information comprises a representation of at least one of the following items associated with a creator of the original digital work that is associated with the entity: an intrinsic property, an iris, a retina, a facial feature, a finger print, an ear print, and a portion of a DNA sequence. 
     
     
       12. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the digital authentication token is generated by the at least one deterministic algorithm further operating on an external notarization token. 
     
     
       13. The method of  claim 12 , wherein the external notarization token comprises at least one of the following: a blockchain hash, a distributed ledger token, and a certification token. 
     
     
       14. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the notarized ledger data structure comprises a distributed ledger. 
     
     
       15. The method of  claim 14 , wherein the distributed ledger includes at least one of the following: an Openchain ledger, a Hyperledger, an Ethereum ledger, a bitcoin ledger, a TRON ledger, an IOTA ledger, and a hashgraph ledger. 
     
     
       16. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the notarized ledger data structure comprises a smart contract ledger. 
     
     
       17. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the digital authentication token comprises an image associated with the entity. 
     
     
       18. The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating the digital authentication token comprise a for-fee service. 
     
     
       19. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising validating the publishable content by calculating validation score using a difference between the digital authentication token and an archived verification token. 
     
     
       20. The method of  claim 19 , further comprising validating the publishable content upon the validation score satisfying a validation criteria. 
     
     
       21. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the entity comprises a content creator of the original digital work. 
     
     
       22. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the entity comprises at least one of the following associated with the original digital work: an author, a patient, an artist, a reporter, a journalist, a publisher, a producer, a newspaper, a corporation, a doctor, and an editor. 
     
     
       23. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising enabling access to a health vault associated with the entity based on the digital authentication token. 
     
     
       24. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the digital authentication token is further generated from a health object identifier (HOI).